FORTY-FIVE international urban sketchers, together with their travelling companions, are coming to Galway next week to draw and sketch some of its most iconic buildings as part of the first Urban Sketching Workshop to be held in the city.

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NOBODY WANTS rubbish on the streets or waste dumped outside buildings, but imagine if that waste was re-assembled, re-imagined, re-created into a series of colourful little beasts and monsters, that instead of making a street look shabby, actually give it vibrancy, life, and joy?

DEPENDING on what part of Ireland you come from, the year 1916 means very different things. For many it means the Rising, the rebellion led by artists and intellectuals, which paved the way for Independence in 1921.

THIS YEAR'S Galway Fringe Festival visual arts programme features a special exhibition of 'rural pop art' by the celebrated Breton collective Hangar’t. The group hails from the village of Nizon, near Pont-Aven southern Brittany, an area which greatly inspired the work of Paul Gauguin.

"WHAT DO you know about fine art printmaking?" is not a question that is asked every day, but printmaking is a popular and venerable art form, and those interested in it will be excited by a new exhibition.

THE 126 Gallery has had to close its Flood Street space owing to increasing rental costs, but will re-open in June to host the gallery's Annual Members Show t its new premises in St Bridget’s Place, Woodquay.

THE TOWN Hall Theatre bar was the location for the recent launch of the opening of artist and animator Ciara Nolan’s debut solo show, Féar (grass), comprising prints of images from Nolan's short animated film of the same name.

ALMOST 50 photographs, highlighting the use of Lámh, a sign system used by those with intellectual disability and communication needs in Ireland, is currently on display in the Eyre Square Shopping Centre.

DANIEL JEWESBURY, the artist, lecturer, writer, and editor will curate the 14th TULCA Festival of Visual Arts. The open call for submissions to the festival, which takes place in November, has also been announced.

THE 1916 leaders have been demonised and canonised, praised for helping Ireland become independent, and blamed for the Northern Troubles - which began 50 years after their death. Their life and legacy is very much contested ground.